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Mar 2, 2024 · The audit also found that Mr Kaplan had limited contacts with Singapore's traditional media. It said that at the time of inspection, he had held only two press events since arriving in Singapore ...
Mar 2, 2024 · WASHINGTON - United States Ambassador to Singapore Jonathan Kaplan had “poor relationships” with some Singapore ministries, impeding America’s diplomatic goals, according to an official ...
Mar 3, 2024 · A United States' (U.S.) internal watchdog found its ambassador to Singapore to have wasted money and had poor ties with some Singapore ministries, hindering the progress of U.S.' diplomatic goals.
Mar 3, 2024 · But Mr Kaplan told OIG that MFA meetings were “unproductive, with only an exchange of talking points and no real discussions”. The report also found that the ambassador had limited contact with Singapore’s traditional media. He had held only two press events since his arrival in Singapore, one of which was off the record, the report ...
Mar 2, 2024 · The expense led “the embassy to reduce funding for other public diplomacy programmes that might have more effectively advanced US interests in Singapore”, the report said. The ambassador job was vacant for five years before Kaplan was confirmed in November 2021, after former President Donald Trump’s first nominee, KT McFarland, withdrew from consideration and the Senate declined to take ...
“The Ambassador told OIG there was no need for him to deal with Singapore’s traditional media and he preferred to use social media,” it said. He appeared indifferent to the embassy’s social media priorities and focused instead on the number of followers on his official Instagram account, which, as at March 2023, had 825 followers, it added.
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Mar 5, 2024 · K Shanmugam has obliquely addressed some of the criticism faced by United States Ambassador to the Singapore, Jonathan Kaplan, in a social media post on Mar. 4. Under fire
